They're Calling, Open the Door
1965 USSR film
- 1965 (1965)
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They're Calling, Open the Door (Russian: Звонят, откройте дверь, romanized: Zvonyat, otkroyte dver) is a Soviet feature film of 1965 directed by Alexander Mitta, the debut of the twelve-year-old Elena Proklova in the cinema.
Plot
A fifth-grade student, Tanya (Elena Proklova), is in love with the pioneer leader Petya (Sergey Nikonenko), who is teased by one of her classmates. Tanya's father is a geologist, and her mother left for a while to see her husband; Tanya lives alone under the supervision of a neighbor in a communal apartment. To please the pioneer leader, she takes part in the search for an interesting person, one of the first soviet pioneers.
Cast
- Elena Proklova as Tanya Nechaeva
- Rolan Bykov as Pavel Vasilievich Kolpakov
- Sergey Nikonenko as Petya Kryuchkov
- Vladimir Belokurov as violinist Korkin
- Viktor Kosykh as Genka
- Valentina Vladimirova as watchman in theater
- Oleg Yefremov as Vasily Dresvyannikov
- Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Tanya's mother
- Iya Savvina as Genka's mother
- Vladimir Balon as teacher of fencing
- Yekaterina Vasilyeva as physical education teacher
- Klara Rumyanova as Klara Mikhailovna
- Andrei Smirnov as tenant
- Pavel Lebeshev as Petya Kryuchkov's neighbor
Awards
- Venice Film Festival: Lion of San Marco — Grand Prize (Alexander Mitta)[1]
- Mosfilm Award: Best Actress (Elena Proklova)[2]
References
External links
- They're Calling, Open the Door at IMDb
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Films by Alexander Mitta
- My Friend, Kolka! (1961)
- No Fear, No Blame (1962)
- They're Calling, Open the Door (1965)
- Shine, Shine, My Star (1970)
- Point, Point, Comma... (1972)
- Moscow, My Love (1974)
- How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976)
- Air Crew (1979)
- The Story of Voyages (1982)
- A Step (1988)
- Lost in Siberia (1991)
- Chagall — Malevich (2014)
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